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Editor's Note: Seamless Assessment
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Pondering Plants
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students exploring the physical structure of a plant, how a plant grows, and what a plant actually is....
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The Early Years: Are They Getting It?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses formative assessment....
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Engineering Encounters: Engineer It, Learn It: Science and Engineering Practices in Action
Step into an elementary classroom to see what Next Generation Science Standards practices look like....
NSTA Press Book
Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), you need a resource to help you answer pressing questions about how the standards fit with your curriculum, instruction, and assessments. Rodger W. Bybee has written Translating the NG...
By Rodger Bybee
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Editor's Note: Engineering and Design
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Early Years: The STEM of Inquiry
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes a STEM activity that includes designing and using a tool....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Flying Machines
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue uses two fiction trade books to inspire students to design and test various flying machines....
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Engineering Encounters: Minding Design Missteps
This month's topic describes a watch list of misconceptions for beginning designers....